A/N: Okay, that was a big chapter! Next one is here!!! Enjoy, definately some love, humor, fighting and tears...Excellent!!!!!! Read on People and please r&r!!!!!!! My inbox has been dead lately and I' m forgeting my plot!!!!!!
Itachi prowled around the tree-cover around the hide-out watching the nearly-full moon rise... The pale light reflected off his blind eyes like some wild animal... The scars from his last fight clearly visible on his pale, moonlit skin. His muscles flexed ubruptly as he steadied himself for the next leap. A voice like birdsong sounded not to far away...but all was forgotten as he dulled the night noises around him...Cicadas seemed to go silent as he lept, soaring over the body beneith him, that gave a startled yelp... He broke into a run-jump through the forest, running deeper into it's murky depths... The body behind him stumbled as she landed on a branch and lost her footing only to swing around and regain it...
He jumped into a hollow as the other figure darted past. He wrapped the shadows around him and moved without a sound, down the tree...
Suddenly a black cloaked shape dropped down on top of him. He glared and bared his teeth as pain sliced his thigh...
"Konan! What on earth are you doing?!?!?", he asked as he smelt the familiar perfume of wild berries... Konan glared at him...
"Trying to talk to you! You just ran away!! What was I supposed to do? Let it go?", she asked, then stopped and realised her mistake.
"I didn't want to be found Konan! I was thinking!", Itachi Uchiha thundered. He rolled her over so she was pinned beneith him.
"You seem to be doing a lot of thinking lately, Itachi!", she snarled at him. He looked down in suprise at her tone...Nobody used that tone with him, those that had weren't alive to tell the tale...
"That's because I have to! Konan you don't understand me at all, so don't pretend like you do, Ok?", he snarled back at her as he dug the kunai out of his thigh. A line of blood trickled down the slim thigh and dropped onto the ground. She stared at the crimson droplets as they fell like rain and soaked into the dry earth. He watched her silently as she looked on, transfixed to the small drops...
"Itachi...I-I-I didn't mean to hurt you!", Konan said hysterically. She'd seen what he could do to people...the victim writhering in agony, reliving their darkest dreams, their nightmares, over and over again untill their bodies gave up...Only to be tossed in a shallow grave afterwards by Itachi...
She cringed as he moved his hand towards her face...
"Ohhh no! Please don't hurt me Ita-san!!!!!", she shrieked as he moved closer. He placed his hand over her mouth gently while running the other through her fine violet-blue hair.
"Shush Konan...It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you...", he said in a gruff be gentle voice. She stopped screaming and thrashing to look in his deep, onyx-black eyes. He slowly removed his hand and she sucked a gratefull breath in.
"Ita-san, why?", she asked confused. He just shushed her as he rolled off her stomach. She turned over, still on the floor.
"I'll tell you what I was thinking about...so you can understand me better. Then maybe you'll let me be...", he said. She nodded and leaned in closer.
"I was thinking about the fight between Sasuke and me. He seemed so confident, so powerful...but how did he let Orochimaru mark him? I would have thought he'd be smarter that that...", Itachi said looking up at the moon through the dense canopy of trees.
"Maybe it wasn't Sasuke...Maybe Orochimaru kidnapped him or something?", she asked. He shook his head.
"He was always strong, he just needed to activate it...The second-level sharingan isn't easy to obtain. I went through my best friend to obtain it...but he used all of the pain, all of the vengance to obtain the sharingan higher that me! But he left me, he didn't kill me...I died afterwards from blood loss. But why?", Itachi said questioningly. Konan looked at him, staring into those pain filled eyes... He's hurt so much...he had so much love for his brother, even if he didn't show it... She looked down towards the ground. She was suprised when a cold drop of water splashed her hand... Was Itachi crying? She looked up at him to see two dark trails running down his nose. She looked at her hand where the cold water had hit.
"OMG ITACHI!!!!! ITACHI WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR EYES?????!!!??", she screamed as she looked at the dark blob of blood on her hand. Itachi didn't resopnd at first then slowly lifted his head.
"The pain will go away soon...don't worry my little hana... I am all well. Let me rest Konan...", he said slowly as blood started to trickle from his elegantly pointed nose...
"NO ITACHI!!!!!!! KISAME!!!! PEIN!!!!!! TOBI!!!! DEIDARA!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!", she screamed at the top of her lungs. A crashing came from behind her as the troops angled in on her voice...
"Don't worry hana-chan...I'll...Be...Fine...". His last word was acompanied by a large exhale... He started to go stiff in her arms as Kisame and Pein came ploughing through the undergrowth...
"What happened!?!?!?!", Kisame asked horrified when he saw Itachi... Pein took in the scene, from Itachi's lifeless corpse to Konan's tear streaked face.
'Kisame, shut it", Pein growled as he crossed the glen towards the distraught young girl. He placed his hand out to her and she steadily pulled herself up and into his cool embrace.
"What happened to Itachi-sama?", she sobbed into his chain-mailed chest... He picked her up in his arms and held her tight.
"Sometimes the resurrections don't work properly. I had a feeling this would happen...", he said quietly as Kisame kneeled down beside his former partner...
"Let the waters of the seven seas wash your soul towards paridise...", Kisame muttered gently and placed his hnd on the dead teenager's chest. Konan, sobbed even harder into Pein's hardened chest... They walked silently back towards the cave, single file, Konan in Pein's arms and Kisame walking, head down and hands clasping his sword...
Gaara felt the soul pass...so did Sakura. They were abnormally quiet as the moment passed.
"The Akatsuki lost another...Itachi-san...", Gaara said quietly. Sakura nodded and returned to running the mark-lotion into her growling belly.
"Sasuke was always so determined to kill him...Wait! I thought he was dead!", Sakura exclaimed.
"Yes and No...Pein bought him back", Gaara said under his breath. He remembered being in the cave, floating above his body watching them quietly, neither ghost nor living thing... The leader with his fuzzy orange hair and his leader in training watching on silently as hs soul ws extracted...
Then the leader looked up at him with ringed irises...the Rinnegan. The thought was enough to give him goosebumps... Gaara snapped back into the present. If they found out about Gaara, Sakura and the babies...all hell would break loose, literally...
"So Itachi was brought back just so he could die again?", She asked him. He shook his head.
"No, obviously Pein-sama thought the soul would last... It was a shock to both of them. Konan, the next leader was with him when he died...", Gaara said, as an unusual emotion passed his face...
"Must have been hard for her then", Sakura said gently. Gaara looked over to her with a sad face. She put the cream on the bedside table and got up.
"I'm just going to get some air. I've got those cramps again...", Sakura said and walked silently to the door.
"What cramps?", Gaara asked suspiciously.
"These cramps, they're followed by a kind of white sticky stuff...A bit of fresh air makes it go away though", she said smiling. Gaara looked like he'd been hit by a truck.
"SAKURA! You're going into labour!!! Your waters have broken again!!! We have to get you to the hospital right now!!", Gaara said, gathering his uniform and slipping it over his dust covered clothes. Sakura looked shocked.
"But...But, Hinata was in pain when she went into labour! I remember! She was howling with pain and everything! I can't be in labour yet! There's still a week to go!!!", the cramps had turned into a ripping pain as she frantically began to babble nonsense.
"Sakura shut it! The more you panic, the faster the labour pains will come on...Just calm down!!!! Come here, i'll shift us to the hospital now...", he said frantically. He was stressed already,, and the best of it hadn't even started! She ran over to him with an awkward wobble, he picked her pain wracked form up and disolved into sand, blowing and shifting on the air till it got to the hospital.
Gaara materialised right in front of the emergency ward and a group of paramedic ninjas looked over at him. Seeing Sakura'swithering form in his arms the tipped the remenants of their dinners into the nearest bin and came over.
"What's wrong Gaara-sama? Has she gone into labour?", one of the paramedics asked frantically.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU BLUNDERING IMBICILE!!!!!! GET HER INTO THE DELIVERY ROOM AND HELP HER!!!!!!", he roared at the medic-nin. They took Sakura from his arms and placed her on one of the streachers wating by the door.
"Gaara! Don't leave me!!!!", a desperate Sakura screamed.
"Don't worry Sakura!!! I'm here! I won't leave you!!!!!", Gaara called as the medic nin wheeled her away down the sterrilized halls. He sprinted after them, up lifts, down ramps and into the maternity wards...
"What is her weight?", one of the nurses said quickly as she prepared the needle...
"Ummmmm, about 56 kilograms now", Gaara replied as he watched her fill the needle. Sakura gasped when she saw how big it was and fainted.
"QUICK SOMEONE WAKE HER UP!!!!!! WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY MISTAKES!!!!!!!!", the nurse screamed at the rest of the people present. A squirt of water hit Sakura right between the brows as the needle was inserted into her arm.
"There's the painkillers Sakura, you'll be fine now", the nurse said calmly. Sakura felt her whole head spin as the epidural took effect...
Pein forced his way past the long line of people praying for Sakura and the babies till he got inside the hospital.
"Who are you looking for my dear?', a very fat, but kind lady at the desk asked him just as Konan, in normal clothes forced her way past the door.
"I'm looking for my aunty, she went into labour about ten minutes ago. I got told on the street and came running...", Pein explained. The nurse looked him up and down, from his baggy, cargo pants to his peircing-less face.
"You must be one of Sakura-chan's family. She's in the maternity ward, floor seven, third large door across. Hurry, she may need suport!", the assistant advised him. He nodded and grabbed Konan, pulling her up the nearest flight of stairs.
"So what was the room?", Konan asked.
"Floor seven, third large door! Ohhh, stuff this!!!", he said spinning around on his heel in the middle of the stairway. Konan stopped just in time so she didn't end up crashing into him...
"Shifting whirlwind...", Pein said as he grabbed her again and raised his hands in the dragon-rat-snake forms. The air seemed to shimmer untill they reached the right floor, right in front of the ward.
"Where is she?", Konan asked Pein. He glared at her and burst into the room. Several dazed nurses stared at him before anyone moved. Gaara locked his eyes on Pein and hissed.
"So we meet again Gaara?", Pein hissed back.
"So we do...now...GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY WIFE YOU BASTARD!!!!!", Gaara roared before he launched himself over the half-concious Sakura. Pein blew him away with a whirlwind and pinned him to a wall as Konan walked over to Sakura.
"No, No, No!", Sakura moaned as she saw the blue-haired figure.
"Shhhhhh, Sakura. Everything is going to be okay", Konan assured her. That was far from the truth...
"NO!!!!!!!!!", Sakura screamed as she shifted. Her whole body reched the side walls as fangs, claws and a tail errupted out of nowhere. SHe turned, saliva dripping from her jaws towards the offending object and swatted her away as if she were a fly. Sakura lifeted her great head, putting a massive hole through the ceiling and roared, making the remainding windows shatter. Gaara looked up into her face. Not of his precious Sakura...but the true beast within... Seienna... Looks like the mothering instincts have taken over... Gaara thought to himself as he too, shifted into another Shukaku...
"What the hell!!!!!", Pein screamed as Konan was flung into the corner of the room by what could only be described as... the female Shukaku...
"He focused his eyes on Gaara as the thing lept out, what remained of the roof. Gaara was already half done when he ripped into Pein's shoulder blade. A warm, rich liquid, like metled chocolate seeped into his fang-lined mouth. Pein yelled in agony as Gaara shook with all of his might, flinging the Akatsuki leader into the corner with his team-mate. He shifted further, fully this time and bounded after Sakura...
A/N: Now see, I always enjoy a good punch up fight. And Gaara won!!!!!!! HAAHAAA SUCK ON THAT PEIN!!!!!!!!!! And OMG OMG OMG OMG ITACHI DIED!!!!!!!!!!! Poor fishy Kisame he's probably so upset right now...
Kisame- I'm not upset!!! I was just...hormonal...
Angel: Yeah right! That excuse doesn't work little fishy!!!! Only WOMEN can have hormonal moments!!!!!
Kisame- Actually...okay then it's true. I was upset...
Angel: See, it's better when you let it all out!
Deidara- Who's having hormonal moments? I can help!! I have them all the time!!!!!
Kisame- ...ummmmm...
Angel: SO what your trying to tell us Deidara is that your a girl?
Deidara: What? We were talking about that? Ooops...
Angel: OMG OMG OMG!!!! DEIDARA IS A GIRL!!!!!!
Sassori: I already knew that...
Angel: EWWWWWW SASORI!!!!!! TMI TMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think we'd better end this otherwise it may breach my terms of sevice thingy/guideline thingy...I don't think anyone wants to go there!!!!!!!